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The use of animals as a surveillance tool for monitoring environmental health hazards, human health hazards and bioterrorism
This review discusses the utilization of wild or domestic animals as surveillance tools for monitoring naturally occurring environmental and human health hazards. Besides providing early warning to natural hazards, animals can also provide early warning to societal hazards like bioterrorism. Animals...
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The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7130562/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28619165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vetmic.2017.02.007 |
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author | Neo, Jacqueline Pei Shan Tan, Boon Huan |
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description | This review discusses the utilization of wild or domestic animals as surveillance tools for monitoring naturally occurring environmental and human health hazards. Besides providing early warning to natural hazards, animals can also provide early warning to societal hazards like bioterrorism. Animals are ideal surveillance tools to humans because they share the same environment as humans and spend more time outdoors than humans, increasing their exposure risk. Furthermore, the biologically compressed lifespans of some animals may allow them to develop clinical signs more rapidly after exposure to specific pathogens. Animals are an excellent channel for monitoring novel and known pathogens with outbreak potential given that more than 60 % of emerging infectious diseases in humans originate as zoonoses. This review attempts to highlight animal illnesses, deaths, biomarkers or sentinel events, to remind human and veterinary public health programs that animal health can be used to discover, monitor or predict environmental health hazards, human health hazards, or bioterrorism. Lastly, we hope that this review will encourage the implementation of animals as a surveillance tool by clinicians, veterinarians, ecosystem health professionals, researchers and governments. |
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spelling | pubmed-71305622020-04-08 The use of animals as a surveillance tool for monitoring environmental health hazards, human health hazards and bioterrorism Neo, Jacqueline Pei Shan Tan, Boon Huan Vet Microbiol Review Article This review discusses the utilization of wild or domestic animals as surveillance tools for monitoring naturally occurring environmental and human health hazards. Besides providing early warning to natural hazards, animals can also provide early warning to societal hazards like bioterrorism. Animals are ideal surveillance tools to humans because they share the same environment as humans and spend more time outdoors than humans, increasing their exposure risk. Furthermore, the biologically compressed lifespans of some animals may allow them to develop clinical signs more rapidly after exposure to specific pathogens. Animals are an excellent channel for monitoring novel and known pathogens with outbreak potential given that more than 60 % of emerging infectious diseases in humans originate as zoonoses. This review attempts to highlight animal illnesses, deaths, biomarkers or sentinel events, to remind human and veterinary public health programs that animal health can be used to discover, monitor or predict environmental health hazards, human health hazards, or bioterrorism. Lastly, we hope that this review will encourage the implementation of animals as a surveillance tool by clinicians, veterinarians, ecosystem health professionals, researchers and governments. The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2017-05 2017-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7130562/ /pubmed/28619165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vetmic.2017.02.007 Text en © 2017 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Neo, Jacqueline Pei Shan Tan, Boon Huan The use of animals as a surveillance tool for monitoring environmental health hazards, human health hazards and bioterrorism |
title | The use of animals as a surveillance tool for monitoring environmental health hazards, human health hazards and bioterrorism |
title_full | The use of animals as a surveillance tool for monitoring environmental health hazards, human health hazards and bioterrorism |
title_fullStr | The use of animals as a surveillance tool for monitoring environmental health hazards, human health hazards and bioterrorism |
title_full_unstemmed | The use of animals as a surveillance tool for monitoring environmental health hazards, human health hazards and bioterrorism |
title_short | The use of animals as a surveillance tool for monitoring environmental health hazards, human health hazards and bioterrorism |
title_sort | use of animals as a surveillance tool for monitoring environmental health hazards, human health hazards and bioterrorism |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7130562/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28619165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vetmic.2017.02.007 |
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